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Escape from Baghdad

May 22: I am leaving Iraq, and a lot of people who are staying wish they could do the same:

Sahar al-Jawari, the unemployed, divorced mother who is slowly selling the last of her jewelry to survive in a city where gunshots are an everyday affair and electricity is not.

Xzibit, the 19-year-old military translator from Baghdad who uses the name of his favorite American rapper as a pseudonym to… » Full Story on Salon.com
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